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Date: 9 November 1799: Location: Château de Saint-Cloud: Participants: Napoleon Bonaparte; ... The Coup of 18 Brumaire (French: Coup d'État du 18 Brumaire) ...
On 9 November 1799 (18 Brumaire VIII), Bonaparte led the coup of 18 Brumaire, seizing French parliamentary and military power and forcing the sitting directors of the government to resign. On the night of 10 November, a remnant of the Council of Ancients abolished the Constitution of the Year III , ordained the consulate, and legalised the coup ...
The Coup of 18 Dominican Brumaire was a military coup d'état that took place on June 9, 1844, in the Dominican Republic. This event was part of the Dominican War of Independence . In May 1844, after the defeat of Haitian president Charles Rivière-Hérard , political dissidence arose between the independent Trinitarios and the ruling ...
The title refers to the Coup of 18 Brumaire in which Napoleon I seized power in revolutionary France (9 November 1799, or 18 Brumaire Year VIII in the French Republican Calendar), in order to contrast it with the coup of 1851.
Brumaire (French pronunciation:) was the second month in the French Republican calendar. The month was named after the French brume 'fog', which occurs frequently in France at that time of the year. Brumaire was the second month of the autumn quarter (mois d'automne). It started between 22 October and 24 October, ending between 20 November and ...
1797, Coup of 18 Fructidor in France: The French Directory, with the support of the military, seizes power and ends the monarchist majority in Parliament. 1799, Coup of 18 Brumaire in France: A bloodless coup d'état overthrew the French Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate, and brought Napoléon Bonaparte to power.
As Argentina on Sunday marked the most traumatic date in its modern history — the 1976 military coup that ushered in a brutal dictatorship — President Javier Milei posted a startling video ...
The Directory (also called Directorate; French: le Directoire [diʁɛktwaʁ] ⓘ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire an IV) until November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the Consulate.